Dear Editor, The letter you published from Henry Quirke (IC 16/06/2016)) is very unfair to Mary Stewart. She did not “demonise” Ken Curtin, or accuse him of “condoning murder”. She simply pointed out that Mr Curtin should not have been surprised at the Church’s reaction (removing him from the rota of readers at Mass) to…

Dear Editor, Greg Daly’s report on the findings of the survey The Future of Ireland II:Belonging and Community (‘One-third of Irish adults active in local church’ IC 16/06/2016) is a surprisingly good news story for our Church, even if the survey highlights that there is a significant variation in the responses of younger and older…

Dear Editor, Bro. George Whyte’s letter on ‘Disorder and disrespect at services’ (IC 02/06/2016) is no exaggeration and provides a good example of what is happening presently in churches throughout the country. Congregational applause is another irreverent practice that I would like to highlight and which, I feel, is becoming increasingly prevalent particularly at weekend…

Dear Editor, Mary Kenny describes Queen Elizabeth of Britain as a “surprising ecumenist” who nevertheless adheres to her own Christian faith (IC 16/06/2016). Wasn’t it Queen Elizabeth who signed into law the 1967 Abortion Act, which has resulted – so far – in the deaths of more than eight million of her subjects?  Would that…

Dear Editor, I’m sure that the vast majority would have the greatest sympathy with any pregnant woman who has received an unsatisfactory diagnosis, and would agree that she should receive all appropriate assistance and support. However if the United Nations Committee had any genuine concern for human rights, it would have recognised that the real cruelty,…

Dear Editor, Thank you to David Quinn for his comments in the June 9 issue on the problem of bias in the Irish media. It’s so frustrating day after day to have to observe this blatant bias in action in our national papers and on our radio/television. The Irish media behave as though Catholics in this country are not…

Dear Editor, A few years ago a priest friend, while on holiday from England, was one of the concelebrants of a funeral Mass for John, who had Down Syndrome. Many of the deceased’s friends and colleagues from the Old Monastery Day Centre, Killarney attended the Mass and gave public expression to their loyalty and deep…

Dear Editor, Compliments on your very informative feature on “Catholicism in England and Wales” (IC 02/06/2016). You won’t mind, I’m sure, if I suggest ways in which an article like this so heavily dependent on statistics could be made more reader-friendly in the future. The verbal and the visual are not brought together in any…

Dear Editor, I find the letter of Mary Stewart in condemnation of Ken Curtin appalling and completely over the top. Surely the man is entitled to have reservations on the Eighth Amendment without been demonised and accused of condoning murder. I also have reservations on the Eighth Amendment and back in 1983 voted against its…

Dear Editor, I am absolutely horrified at the headline in The Irish Catholic (09/06/2016) ‘Pressure on Catholic schools to ban Amnesty International’. It beggars belief that Catholic schools would allow Amnesty address their pupils with their promotion of the killing of babies in the womb. It was hardly too much to expect that, when Amnesty…